Patient Innovation achieved a new milestone: we are proud to have 1000 solutions on our platform!

After five years online, the Patient Innovation platform now features 1000 solutions developed by patients, caregivers and collaborators, to cope with a disease or health condition.

Solutions that cover around 260 different diseases or conditions.

Top 5 conditions with solutions on the platform:

1. Physical Disability (11%)
2. Paraplegia (6%)
3. Cerebral palsy (5%)
4. Blindness (4%)
5. Autism (4%)

Patient Innovation Bootcamp (PatientEntrepreneur) to be sponsored by EIT HEALTH

We are thrilled to announce that EIT Health has decided to sponsor the Patient Innovation Bootcamp (PatientEntrepreneur). EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the European Union.

The PatientEntrepreneur Bootcamp is an accelerating program for patients and caregivers to implement and scale up the innovative solutions they developed to help them cope with a need imposed by their health condition.

The bootcamp will be promoted by a number of EIT Health partners, including three prestigious universities (Copenhagen Business School, University of Copenhagen, IESE Business School), Biocat (cluster organisation for life sciences in Catalonia), SmiLe (an incubator from Lund, Sweden) and Glintt (a digital health company from Portugal). The promoting consortium also includes Walk with Path (a company created by a caregiver) and the Patient Innovation Association.

This will be the first of a series of bootcamps to help patients and caregivers to implement and scale up the innovative solutions they developed for themselves.

We are grateful for the support from EIT Health to the PatientEntrepreneur Bootcamp.

Eduardo - another Patient Innovation “Offer your hand” hero

The project “Offer your hand” was one of the winners of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia Challenge and the Fidelidade Comunidade prizes that reward social inclusion and healthcare promotion projects. This award allows us to contribute to the development and production of low-cost 3D printed prosthesis for up to 20 children. Rodrigo was the first child to receive a 3D printed prosthesis under this project.

But then came Eduardo, a 3-year-old Portuguese boy who got a 3D printing prosthetic hand from Patient Innovation - and immediately became one of our heroes :)

Make-a-Thon @ Porto

Patient Innovation was invited by Porto Global Hub to participate as a Challenger at a Make-a-Thon that took place at Porto Design Factory, Porto, from June 21st to June 23rd. Patient Innovation was a mentor of the Health and Tech team, helping them to better understand the social problems they are solving.

The team mentored by Patient Innovation was one of winners of the event!

Ciência 2019 @ Lisbon

Patient Innovation was featured in two sessions of Ciência 2019, a science and technology summit. The event took place in Lisbon, from July 8th to July 10th.

Helena Canhão, our Co-Leader and Chief Medical Officer, presented Patient Innovation in two sessions: one about ICT and value-based healthcare, and another about the new Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC) at NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, that Helena Canhão leads.

The Patient Innovation team
is getting bigger

The Patient Innovation team keeps growing!
We have nine new team members :

Yara Sanei

Iranian pharmacist, from the Patient Innovation Copenhagen Local Chapter

Catarina Hoosseni

4th year Portuguese student of the integrated BSE/MSE degree in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

Joana Saraiva

Portuguese medical doctor degree and a MSc student in Business Administration and Innovation in Health Care at Copenhagen Business School

Artem Medovshchikov

From Russia - Medical team

From Spain - Sara Cama

From Spain - Medical team

Souha Friha

From Tunisia - Medical team

Ricardo Nelas

NOVA Medical School - Medical team

António Abreu

NOVA Medical School - Medical team

Sara Neves

NOVA Medical School - Medical team

More data, more research and new articles

As Patient Innovation is getting more solutions everyday, we are able to get more data about innovative patients and caregivers. The data also feeds our own research, and the research of many, that are writing papers and master/doctoral thesis on the phenomena of patient innovation. Recently two new articles were published on the topic:

Peer Adoption and Development of Health Innovations by Patients: National Representative Study of 6204 Citizens. Oliveira P, Zejnilovic L, Azevedo S, Rodrigues AM, Canhão H. J Med Internet Res. 2019 March 26;21(3):e11726. doi: 10.2196/11726.

When patients become innovators. DeMonaco H, Oliveira P, Torrance A, von Hippel C, von Hippel E. MIT Sloan Management Review. 2019 February.

Master thesis on "Patient Innovation activities in China"

Shuyue Zhang successfully defended, in the beginning of 2019, her Master thesis on "Patient Innovation activities in China - a combination of semi-quantitative multi-case study approach" at Nova SBE, in the context of the The Lisbon MBA. Congratulations!

The Patient Innovation Awards will be back for the 4th edition.

And we are especially excited about this new edition because we will have a new category: the Patient Innovation Entrepreneur award!

Stay tuned, as we will have more news on this topic very soon.

But in the meantime, if you want to get a shot at being one of these winners, it’s very simple: just register at the Patient Innovation platform and tell the story about the solution you developed to help you overcome a challenge imposed by a disease or health condition. Or, if that’s not the case, you can still apply by registering and telling the story of a solution you created not to help yourself but a loved or someone you know. By doing this, you are automatically applying for the 4th Patient Innovation Awards.

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